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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly, my money was on their going after the banjo players first and then maybe accordion players.

They’re the ones with the least mainstream support.

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 4h

Why? We need hold every spot we have & capture as many more as possible. @grahamformaine.bsky.social is already in a great spot to oust Collins.

Why mess with that?

Sheesh.

Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 1d

Why does he use a foreign word here? Hy doesn’t he say “no religious law”?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

If this will make groceries, housing and electricity cheaper then I’m all for it.

Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 1d

Well, this sure tracks.

Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 1d

You really wanna know what's going on with mtg? GOP doesn't want to govern. They want celebrity. Kardashian life. It's pro wrestling sideshow carney theater. For the clicks and the reports and getting name back in media. See, she did the conspiracy theorist. She did the evangelical. She did the

Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 1d

RFK has plenty of actually egregious positions on so many things.

This is fake, tho.

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 1d

I expect these survivors know exactly who some of their abusers were. They are limited in naming names in part due to statutes of limitations on the crimes.

That is a legal construct with a legal remedy for which there is precident.

www.massbar.org/publications...

Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 2d

Fascinating takedown of the weaponized HHS.

TLDL: their numbers are BS rooted in legal arguments instead of science. Not a huge surprise. Lawyer RFK is a frickin’ hammer so every question must be a nail.

Thank you Hank Green!

It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 3d

This is a really good explanation of the whole increase in autism numbers from @hankgreen.bsky.social 🧪

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpS...

This "Official" Autism Stat Made No Sense...so I actually read the papers.

YouTube video by Hank Green

www.youtube.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 2d

I get tremendous pleasure from watching all of my kids using these techniques with their kids & sometimes wish I’d been as emotionally mature when my kids were small.

CNBC @cnbc.com · 2d

Want your kids to be emotionally intelligent with good people skills? Child psychologist Reem Raouda has studied more than 200 child-parent relationships. Based on her research, she's identified the nine things successful parents do to raise kids with strong social skills.

I've studied over 200 kids—the ones with 'exceptional' social skills have parents who do 9 things early on

Want your kids to be emotionally intelligent with good people skills? Child psychologist Reem Raouda has studied more than 200 child-parent relationships. Based on her research, she's identified the nine things successful parents do to raise kids with strong social skills.

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 2d

AMPHITA

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe couples are “paired” while reluctant singles are “pared”.

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 3d

Someone needs to do a deep dive “where are they now” for all the convicts the current regime pardoned. Really curious how many ARE government employees now. Maybe not FBI, but maybe DHS or ICE.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 3d

Immigrant advocates “have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them,” @itscaitlinhd reports: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

www.theatlantic.com

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 3d

This says more about his sociopathy than his business acumen.

Every choice he has ever made was through the singular lens of “will I benefit”. Nothing else, not even the future of society, even comes into consideration.

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 3d

Chances are they might at some point work out where he lives. Wonder if they will charge him with harboring aliens or terrorists or drug dealers or something. Will kind of ratchet the whole thing up a bit.

Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 4d

"Turn to the archives".

It's what you do when you run out of ideas. 🤷

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 4d

You’d best start believin‘ in fascist takeovers, my friend. You’re in one.

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 4d

Means you have a “reputation”.

Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 4d

Expose the files & expose many, many powerful men. This is a blackmail Rosetta Stone, the key to control the elites.

Yeah, its release has consequences for those named, but will also render its power over those same men obsolete.

THAT is what they’re protecting. We already KNOW DJT is a POS!

Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 4d

You’re kidding, right?

First off, trump doesn’t GET to accuse anyone of anything. That‘s a DOJ function meant to be based on facts & investigations prioritized at a national level. James’ office prosecuted trump b/c his organization egregiously committed fraud for many years.

JFC, STOP IT! PLEASE!

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 4d

The fact that the entire case revolves around prosecution for a possible typo on a single form that was clearly and repeatedly corrected is way beyond ironic.

tomwellborn3rd @patriotprogressive.bsky.social · 4d

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 4d

Sweet dogs, lovely dogs
Let you in and out again
Why can’t you stay put?
#haiku

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 5d

This keeps getting framed as protecting trump. If that was the only goal, they’d just burn the thing on the WH lawn in front of everyone and say “prove it”.

This has many, many powerful people’s names, including MoC. They need it to exist to keep leverage. Once it is exposed, they lose control.

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 5d

This message should be read in its entirety from every pulpit at every Mass in every Parish in the world this weekend.

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

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Tom Holmes @tomholmes2016.bsky.social · 5d

This is gorgeous. Context?